The 4-Hour Body
by Timothy Ferriss
Ferriss' self-experiments on fat loss (the slow-carb diet), muscle gain, sleep, sex and endurance, presented as a choose-your-own-adventure of minimum effective doses. Some of it is well supported, some is one man's n-of-one, and he says so. The slow-carb chapters are the most widely used and the sleep and injury chapters the most uneven.
Read it if…
you like self-experimentation and want a menu of protocols to test.
Skip it if…
you want consensus medical advice; this is explicitly not that.
Three things you will actually use
- Measure before you change anything.
- Find the minimum effective dose.
- Your body is an experiment of one; test, do not assume.
Do this first
Try the slow-carb rules for two weeks and measure, not guess, the result.
Our verdict
Uneven, interesting, measure everything.
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